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Correlates of death anxiety in elderly persons
Author(s) -
Wagner Karen Dineen,
Lorion Raymond P.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198409)40:5<1235::aid-jclp2270400519>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - death anxiety , anxiety , psychology , personality , population , clinical psychology , demographics , fear of death , psychiatry , demography , social psychology , sociology
Studied the variables related to death anxiety in the elderly. The population consisted of 122 elderly persons who resided in the community and institutions. Questionnaires that measured demographics, support systems, health, personality, and death anxiety were administered. Multiple regression analyses with death anxiety as the criterion were performed on five subsamples of the population. The results showed very little consistency in predictors of death anxiety among the subsamples. It was concluded that death anxiety response patterns are a function of the population examined, rather than existing as general characteristics of the elderly, which explains the inconsistency of previous literature on death anxiety in elderly persons.